2 Kings 24:14-20

14 Then ¹he led away into exile all Jerusalem and all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ²ten thousand captives, and ³all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained ⁴except the poorest people of the land.

15 So ⁵he led Jehoiachin away into exile to Babylon; also the king's mother and the king's wives and his officials and the leading men of the land, he led away into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

16 All the men of valor, ⁶seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, all strong and fit for war, and these the king of Babylon brought into exile to Babylon.

Zedekiah Made King

17 ⁷Then the king of Babylon made his uncle Mattaniah king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

18 ⁸Zedekiah was twenty-one * years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven * years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was ⁹Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

19 He did evil in the sight of the LORD, ¹⁰according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

20 For ¹¹through the anger of the LORD this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And ¹²Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

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2 Kings 24:14-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 24

This chapter relates the rebellion of Jehoiakim against the king of Babylon, which prepared the way for the ruin of the kingdom of Judah, according to the decree of God, and also the death of Jehoiakim, and the conquest the king of Babylon made of part of the land of the king of Egypt, 2Ki 24:1-7 and the short and wicked reign of Jehoiachin his son, when he and the royal family, with great numbers of the inhabitants of the land, were carried captive to Babylon, 2Ki 24:8-16, and his uncle was made king in his room, 2Ki 24:17-20.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 12

1. Jeremiah 24:1
2. 2 Kings 24:16; Jeremiah 52:28
3. Jeremiah 24:1; Jeremiah 29:2
4. 2 Kings 25:12
5. 2 Chronicles 36:10; Jeremiah 22:24-28; Ezekiel 17:12
6. 2 Kings 24:14
7. 2 Chronicles 36:10-13; Jeremiah 37:1
8. Jeremiah 27:1; Jeremiah 28:1; Jeremiah 52:1
9. 2 Kings 23:31
10. 2 Kings 23:37
11. Deuteronomy 4:24; Deuteronomy 29:27; 2 Kings 23:26
12. 2 Chronicles 36:13; Ezekiel 17:15

Footnotes 1

[a]. I.e. Jehoiachin's uncle